Eliot Arkwright

Eliot Arkwright (1754-18) was a United States minister.

Biography
Arkwright was born in Concord, Massachusetts, to an English family. Arkwright's father Thomas Arkwright immigrated from Lancaster, and his mother Linda Bates Johnson was an immigrant from Lancashire, an ancestor of Lyndon B. Johnson, a future president. Arkwright was an agarian and industrial revolutionary, and ran for the rank of Secretary of the Treasury in 1783, but lost to Samuel Adams.